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UK Space Agency launches £1m fund to support STEM learning and careers

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By: Stuart O'Brien

10th May 2024

The UK Space Agency has awarded funding to 15 projects across the UK designed to engage young people from all backgrounds and inspire the next generation into Science, Technology, Engineering…

Government-backed training to encourage more women back to STEM jobs

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By: Stuart O'Brien

20th February 2023

The government has launched a new initiative to help people back into science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) based careers. The scheme – backed by £150,000 of Government funding –…

Bright Network targets 100,000 students with digital skills academy

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By: Stuart O'Brien

11th January 2021

100,000 students and recent graduates in the UK are set to receive critical digital skills training in the next five years as part of Bright Network’s new Technology Academy. The overall…

£120m competition to back new Institutes of Technology

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By: Stuart O'Brien

12th October 2020

A competition – backed by £120 million – to establish the next wave of Institutes of Technology (IoT), unique collaborations between Further Education colleges, universities and business, has been launched…

ABM UK’s Junior Engineering Engagement Programme begins third year

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By: Stuart O'Brien

25th November 2019

Facilities management services provider ABM UK has kicked off year three of its Junior Engineering Engagement Programme (J.E.E.P.), which aims to tackle misperceptions amongst children and their parents of the facilities…

A Levels reveal rise in STEM subjects

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By: Stuart O'Brien

16th August 2019

STEM subjects are on the way up, with an increase in boys and girls taking science subjects at A level. Post-recent A level results, many pupils are now looking at…

GUEST BLOG: A-levels overlook disconnect between education system and the workplace

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16th August 2019

By James Eiloart, Senior Vice President of EMEA, Tableau Software While the government places digital skills at the core of its Industrial Strategy, a widening disconnect is emerging between the current educational…

Bicester pupils score top marks at national STEM event

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By: Stuart O'Brien

12th April 2019

Students at The Cooper School in Bicester beat over 80,000 students at last month’s annual Big Bang Fair to win a license to a STEM technology platform called SOLIDWORKS. Students were…

Top computer scientist chosen to lead National Centre for Computing Education

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By: Stuart O'Brien

1st April 2019

One of Britain’s leading computer scientists has been appointed as chair of the new National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) as a drive to increase student participation continues. Simon Peyton…

STEM & EdTech leaders to provide National Centre for Computing Education

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By: Stuart O'Brien

12th November 2018

The UK’s first National Centre for Computing Education has been set up by a consortium made up of STEM Learning, the British Computing Society and the Raspberry Pi Foundation, backed by…